Want to know the best Garry Marshall Movies and Penny Marshall Movies? How about the worst Garry Marshall Movies and Penny Marshall Movies? Curious about Garry Marshall Movies and Penny Marshall Movies box office grosses or which Garry Marshall Movies and Penny Marshall Movies picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Garry Marshall Movies and Penny Marshall Movies got the best reviews from critics and audiences…how about which ones got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
Garry Marshall (1934-2016) and his younger sister, Penny Marshall (1943-2018), are best known for their work on television. Garry was involved in some of the most famous television shows of the 1960s and 1970s. He wrote for The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Joey Bishop Show, The Danny Thomas Show and The Lucy Show. After producing the show The Odd Couple, he created Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy. Penny Marshall became famous for playing Laverne on the Laverne and Shirley show. After their success on television both Garry and Penny became successful movie directors.
This Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies page will look at the 25 movies that they directed and have been released in theaters. Movies are ranked by box office grosses, critical reception and award recognition.
Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies by star and director of the movie
- Sort Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies by domestic yearly box office rank
- Sort Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Marvel Movie and DC Movie received.
- Sort Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Stats and Possibly Interesting Things From The Above Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies Table
- Ten Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies crossed the magical $100 million domestic gross mark. That is a percentage of 40.00% of their movies listed. Pretty Woman (1990) is their biggest box office hit.
- An average Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall movie grosses $101.30 million in adjusted box office gross.
- Using RottenTomatoes.com’s 60% fresh meter. 9 Marvel and DC movies are rated as good movies…or 36.00% of their movies listed. Big (1988) is the highest rated movie while New Year’s Eve (2011) is the lowest rated movie.
- Five Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies received at least one Oscar® nomination in any category…..or 20.00% of the movies listed.
- Zero Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies won at least one Oscar® in any category…..or 0.00% of the movies listed.
- An average Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) is 60.00. 9 Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Moviesmovies scored higher that average….or 76.66% of the movies listed. Big (1988) got the the highest UMR Score while Exit to Eden (1994) got the lowest UMR Score.
Tale of the Tape – Garry Marshall Movies vs Penny Marshall Movies
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Column one is the category for comparison
- Column two shows Garry Marshall’s stats
- Column three shows Garry Marshall’s stats
- Column four shows who had the best numbers in the comparison
| Number | Category | Garry Marshall | Penny Marshall | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movies Directed | 18 | 7 | Garry | |
| $100 Million Hits | 7 | 3 | Garry | |
| Career Box Office | $1.72 billion | $0.82 billion | Garry | |
| Avg Gross Per Movie | $95.60 million | $116.11 million | Penny | |
| Fresh (60%) Movies | 5 | 4 | Garry | |
| Avg Critic Score | 0.499 | 0.6442 | Penny | |
| Oscar Nom. Movies | 2 | 3 | Penny | |
| AVG UMR Score | 36.6 | 47.73 | Penny |
Possibly Interesting Facts About Garry and Penny Marshall
1. Garry Marshall was born in New York City in 1934.
2. Penny Marshall was born in New York City in 1943.
3. Garry Marshall gave Robin Williams his big break when Mork from Ork appeared on Happy Days. The character was so popular that Mork got his own show….Mork and Mindy. Penny Marshall would later direct Robin Williams in Awakenings.
4. Tom Hanks has starred in one (Nothing in Common) Garry Marshall movie and two (Big, A League Of Their Own) Penny Marshall movies.
5. Garry Marshall cast Hector Elizondo in every single one of his movies.
6. Garry Marshall has been married one time. He has been married to Barbara Marshall since 1963…they have three children.
7. Penny Marshall has been married two times. Her second marriage was to actor, director Rob Reiner. She has one child.
8. Penny Marshall has directed 2 actors to Oscar® nominations: Tom Hanks (Best Actor, Big (1988)), and Robert De Niro (Best Actor, Awakenings (1990)).
Best known for Pretty Woman, but Garry Marshall worked on lots of great stuff. Nothing In Common, Overboard and The Flamingo Kid would be my favourites. RIP.
Hey Bryant….I am right there with you. I love Nothing in Common (Tom Hanks acting breakthrough if you ask me), Overboard (a great underrated comic performance from Kurt Russell) and The Flamingo Kid (Richard Crenna steals the show). Thanks for sharing your Garry Marshall thoughts on this sad day.
RIP Garry Marshall. I love his memoir “Wake Me When It’s Funny”. It is a great read, Funny, moving and inspiring,
Hey Stan…..I will have to check out that memoir. Though it will probably be a little bittersweet reading it after his passing. RIP Garry Marshall.
Sad news we were chatting about him here a few days ago. Seems he was very well-liked. “One of the nicest guys in Hollywood” according to the Hollywood Reporter. RIP Garry.
Hey Steve…sad news indeed. You are right we were just chatting about him a few days ago. Not thinking this has ever happened before….that we do a page on someone and they pass away very shortly after that. Good to know he was one of the nice guys….and he left behind so many hours of entertainment. RIP
The Princess Diaries WAS my childhood. Thank you, Garry.
Hey Redcrow….I think my oldest daughter feels that way too. RIP Garry Marshall.
He was a genius in TV and film.
Hey Aubert he had a great career for sure. He will be missed,